what i have noticed is alot of large trades are happening privately where some are contacting people via IRC. this means that some people are not buying the sell wall to make the price rise.

i think thats why the price has been stagnant below $1k for the last couple months. we need to be ensuring that exchanges are licenced and that big players are buying coins on exchanges to truly affect the price.

as for things like the winklevoss eft.. pfft they are not helping with bitcoin prices. they are just promoting bitcoin but making money away from actual bitcoins.
the EFT is asking people to basically buy shares of THEIR COMPANY. which is valued at 1% of total bitcoins. if bitcoins rises (unrelated to the EFT) then the EFT would appear to be more valuable. making investors money without actually buying any bitcoins. if the twins later wanted to buy more bitcoins they have and will again buy it from private trades, which again does not improve the bitcoin price.

the twins do not care about the price, they just care that investors have bought their shares (so now their FIAT rich) and taking a commission per trade. even if they never bought a single btc ever again, they will still make funds.

never ever buy from these FIAT loving investment companies.. always buy real bitcoins from real exchanges if you want to help